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No! My apartment has 4 types of wall sockets (the 2 prong thin Italian ones for lower power, the two prong wider Italian ones for regular devices, the 3-in-a-row Italian ones with earth and the European standard). The appliances include 240V ones will all these types of plugs, and appliances from the U.S which can run on 240V but have U.S. plugs.

Then there are the 120 V ones, with U.S. plugs, mostly run through a 200W transformer with U.S input and output plugs. Finally, there's the espresso machine, Italian-made but bought in Zabars, with it's own 1.500 W transformer with a European plug.

The last thing I'm going to do is get something with a British plug...

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Mon Sep 6th, 2010 at 04:58:19 PM EST
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oh, santo gesu, it is mindboggling how many plugs there are in italy, and how many adaptors you have to bring along to gigs to be sure you can hook up ok.

totally maddening, irrational, mickey mouse, like so much else in this topsy turvy country.

then when you pull one out of the wall, the whole fixture comes out with it, lol.

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Mon Sep 6th, 2010 at 06:53:02 PM EST
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hen when you pull one out of the wall, the whole fixture comes out with it, lol.

I thought that was just my apartment...

by gk (g k quattro due due sette "at" gmail.com) on Tue Sep 7th, 2010 at 03:09:46 AM EST
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